Words matter. These are the best Ben Elliot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If people don’t feel they’ve got your attention, you’re not going to succeed.
I’ve always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don’t need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
Now if I don’t take exercise I feel a bit frazzled.
Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
When you think about the word ‘quintessentially’, it’s about trying to get to the very essence of something.
The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I’ve got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I’m also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
Once you’re involved in a business, it’s part of what you do. It’s the way you are.
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.
I don’t set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can’t force it. This terrible word – ‘networking’ – I really hate.
When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment – plus, you’ll run into the world and his wife there.
I don’t believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
In the same way I am addicted to puddings – the sweeter the better – I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.
‘Concierge’ comes from the Latin for ‘slave.’
It’s not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
I’m not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.
What goes around comes around in business, and it’s better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I’d go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I’d love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.
I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of – it’s simply the nature of my itinerant life.
